La Venta is a combination zoological, botanical, and Olmec civilization cultural center which contains enormous carved heads and other religious sculptures.
The Wagon Master asked me to help lead a convoy of one Combi bus to lead, a bunch of RV toads, and the tail Combi where I was in CB contact with the wagonmaster and the toads. I was the interpreter between the Wagon Master and the Mexican drivers above.
This is a Ceiba tree. Ceibas are very large straight trunked trees that form a flat top canopy. Ancient Mayas believed (among a lot of other absurdities, unsurprisingly) that a Ceiba was at the center of the earth, that connected the earthly world to the spirit world above.
This is a cacao tree, an evergreen native of the tropical Amazon that propagated to Central America. Maya priests would make a cacao drink mixed with their own blood as an offering to their gods. Cortez was the first European to taste a Cacao beverage in Tenochtitlan during the conquest by the Spanish of that Aztec city - now Mexico City.
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